The BEST episodes of Expedition Unknown
Every episode of Expedition Unknown ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Expedition Unknown!
Expedition Unknown chronicles the adventures of Josh Gates as he investigates iconic mysteries across the globe. Gates begins by interviewing key eyewitnesses and uncovering recent developments in the story, then springboards into a fully immersive exploration. This authentic, roughshod adventure leads Gates closer to the truth behind these unanswered global enigmas, such as the disappearance of Amelia Earhart’s plane. Josh Gates is an adventurer and avid explorer with a unique brand of humor and passion for off-the-map excursions.
#1 - Yamashita's Gold
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/10/2016
Josh travels to the Philippines searching for Yamashita's Gold, a treasure that has been hidden since World War II. When the cave Josh explores quickly fills with water, will he escape with a piece of history before he's trapped?
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#2 - Cloning the Woolly Mammoth
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/28/2016
To help clone the extinct woolly mammoth back to life, Josh visits a Korean biotech lab driving the project and excavates ancient bones in a Canadian mine. He then descends into a vast sinkhole in Siberia to unearth frozen DNA.
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#3 - The Hunt for the Golden Owl
Season 6 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/29/2019
Josh Gates stalks prey that has eluded capture for 25 years, the Golden Owl. A book of riddles gives cryptic clues to where the Owl statuette, worth half a million dollars, is hidden. Josh joins treasure hunters using new leads to chase the fortune.
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#4 - Mystery of Dead Mountain
Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/28/2019
Braving the sub-zero conditions of Siberia, Josh Gates investigates one of the strangest and most brutal cold cases of all-time: the Dyatlov Pass Incident. Nine Soviet hikers died suspiciously. Sixty years later, no one knows how or why.
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#5 - Siberia's Coldest Case
Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/4/2019
Josh Gates concludes his in-depth investigation of the Dyatlov Pass Incident. Taking on Dead Mountain's brutal conditions, Josh and two investigators re-trace the last steps of the hikers. A big discovery could finally solve the mystery.
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#6 - Cracking The Secret
Season 7 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/2/2019
Josh Gates is on a nation-wide treasure hunt to solve a mystery no one has cracked for 40 years: The Secret. Josh travels coast-to-coast and back in time using cutting edge augmented reality and tapping into a network of obsessed Secret detectives.
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#10 - Great Women of Ancient Egypt
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/7/2018
Josh Gates strives to uncover the buried secrets of three of the most powerful and elusive women in ancient Egypt -- Hatshepsut, Nefertiti and Cleopatra; a facial reconstruction project is commissioned to reveal the face of King Tut's mother.
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#12 - True Cross of Christ
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/23/2015
Josh pursues lost fragments of the True Cross of Jesus Christ. He visits the Holy Land to trace the whereabouts of wood from the crucifixion, until new evidence leads him to the underside of the ancient city of Istanbul.
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#13 - Curse of the Golden Bell
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/2/2015
Josh joins local divers in the Southeast Asian country of Myanmar to search for the ancient cursed Great Bell of King Dhammazedi. To recover it, Josh dives into murky, violent waters that have claimed the lives of several other divers.
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#15 - Amelia Earhart
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/8/2015
In the 2-hour season premiere of Expedition Unknown, adventurer Josh Gates hunts down new evidence on the disappearance of Amelia Earhart. He treks to uncharted tribal lands in Papua New Guinea and ends his journey in Fiji, hoping to uncover the pilot’s remains.
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#16 - World's 8th Wonder
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/22/2015
Josh is on the trail of Russia’s missing Amber Panels, priceless pieces of art stolen by the Nazis during WWII. After starting in St. Petersburg, Russia, and getting exposed to the local culture, Josh makes a brief pit stop in Berlin to marvel at the city’s amazing turnaround since the end of the Cold War.
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#17 - Viking Sunstone
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/12/2015
Josh travels to England and Norway to unlock the secrets of the Viking sunstone, a mystic crystal the Vikings used to conquer the seas. Before testing it, he explores a crypt in a Nordic church and descends 1,000 feet into a deserted mine.
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#18 - Secrets of The Nazca
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/19/2015
Josh flies to Peru to investigate the giant geoglyphs drawn into the earth by ancient Nazca tribes. By studying newly found lines and joining a Nazca psychedelic ritual, Josh uncovers the true meaning behind the mysterious tracings.
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#20 - Code to Gold
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/26/2015
Josh scours the Virginia backcountry in search of the legendary Thomas Beale treasure, which would be worth millions today. Since encrypted codes are hiding its whereabouts, Josh takes a detour to Philadelphia to uncover missing pieces of the puzzle.
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#21 - The Legend of Jesse James
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/29/2015
Josh journeys across the Midwest in search of the legendary golden loot of famed American outlaw Jesse James. Along the way, Josh debunks myths about James, rappels off a cliff in the Wichita Mountains and follows treasure hunters into Buzzards Roost.
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#22 - Temple of Doom
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/15/2015
Josh travels to the remote and land-mine-riddled jungles of Cambodia to investigate the lost city of the Khmer Empire and search for a mystical relic that gave its god king the power to incinerate his enemies more than 1,000 years ago.
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#23 - Cracking the D.B. Cooper Case
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 1/11/2017
Josh Gates sets off on an expedition to crack the mystery behind the perpetrator of the only unsolved plane hijacking in US history. Picking up where the FBI left off, Josh joins citizen sleuths on the hunt for D.B. Cooper in the Pacific Northwest. He discovers new clues and theories before having the experience of a lifetime, jumping out of plane, just as Cooper did decades ago.
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#24 - Captain Morgan's Lost Gold
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/19/2015
Josh joins a team of archaeologists in Panama as they search for the Satisfaction, the sunken flagship of legendary pirate Captain Morgan. Using a magnetometer, which reads ferrous metals on the seafloor, they scour the reef for additional signs of wreckage.
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